Word: pasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past two years, CBS has been the front runner in the Color TV sweepstakes. Only two weeks ago, Government bigwigs popped their eyes at a CBS color demonstration in Washington. Cried Colorado's Senator Ed Johnson: "No one who sees color is ever going to be satisfied with ordinary . . . television again...
...production had dropped 15% in the last six months and profits were down. Some small companies, like Lukens Steel Co., insisted that they could not afford to pay increases at the current rate of earnings. Said Lukens' Robert Wolcott: "Wage increases can't be paid out of past profits . . . [In] the four-week . . . period ending July 9, 1949 . . . Lukens . . . showed a net loss...
...million dollars worth of ads during the past two years plugged a five-word question: WHICH TWIN HAS THE TONI? One twin, of course, had a $2 Toni wave at home while the other had an "expensive" professional...
Landlubber. In the moldering, sway-backed Goldenrod, twice sunk and salvaged in her 40 years, it takes an eye as knowing as Cap'n Bryant's to find wistful hints of glories past,* when she was the biggest, flossiest playhouse afloat. Those were the magnolia-scented days when the showboats moved as regularly as the spring floods and, according to legend, a Bayou mother could say of her child, "He'll be foah, come next floatin' showhouse." Today, twelve years after the Goldenrod became a virtual landlubber at her St. Louis mooring, Cap'n Menke...
Latter-day showmanship has caught up with the Goldenrod. Gone is the calliope; today's come-on music blares out of a phonograph loudspeaker. Past the grimy, scrimshawed deck railings, among the faded filigree inside, customers can find two Coke dispensers and a popcorn machine...